YANKEE PREJUDICE AGAINST "NIGGERS."

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1662, 16 April 1874, Page 2

YANKEE PREJUDICE AGAINST "NIGGERS."

The Southern people have lleen accog. ' toxned to have negroes about them from their infancy; most of them were nursed by negro women, and they seem, there*fore, to have less repugnance to personal contact with the black people ttanf is felt by great masses of people in the! north, especially the .Irish element. One of Lee's- generals, now a 'profes'sqr'iirV 1Southern University, iiold-me that every time his old'black nurse «ame to $c b4s.r family, she put her arms round hjhupck also, and kissed him a; she used]to do when he was a child., "It is ptr way here," he aided, "but you will gorfar. enough tojfind a Yankee who codd endure that." "It'would giJem, howetw/ on i the authority of a New. York paper,' that v "Yankee prejudice" on this point ii npt.. absolutely insurmountable, a. col«rfed-'. mah v frpm,:abroad," visiting• New Ifotltf" was,received by,a, merchant who iad ] been in business connection with him for,' years, had, realised a handsome fortune in consequence, and felt that, in spite of hii color, ne .must treat him courteously. On Sunday he invited him ,to church^ a rery k fashionable one, and took him to his own* pew. A prominent member ofr' tne church, seated in a pew behind, (^"Covered with amazement and horror, aeaited at the merchant's side, an impifciakeable ".nigger." The minister "itnade the same' discovery almost as v^n as he began lj\i» sermon, .and was so pd|t out that he Imfo^ his place and nearly '-'fiflplte • down. -[ Aftet service'the promices? i?aember plucked^ the merchant'aside, a;d |»aid indignantly' —^'Brother 'Smith,' wfiiafc does this mean?"—" Bringii? 4 nigser to this church! "—" The pw g is my ,own."^ "] Your own! is that anj? reason whyyott,. t should insult the wlolel congregationf"' —"But he is intolljgenf' and well-eda« cated."—" Who cares foil that? He ii • -"But he is a frtand' of mine ? " >«" What of that? Musi> you therefore -insult the whole congregation! "—"Bat he is a'Christian, and belo.ags to the same denomination." —*' What dp I care for that? Let/him go and with his fellow-niggers."—" But ho is worth fif» . ihillion/dollars," paid the merchant-''-' : -1 •fWorth what?"—" Five million dor. vf lkrs!"—"Jerusalem! Worth fiTe mil* lion! Brother Smith, introduce me."— ; 'f Home ami AGroad," by David Maerae. ,